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Human Nature as Perceived by Rene Descartes

In six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...

John Searle and the Nature of Consciousness

In nine pages this paper discusses the philosophy behind the nature of consciousness in a consideration of John Searle's research....

Human Nature and Ethical Relationships

should also make note of how "King Rat" calls attention to the limits of administration and the influence of the political realm w...

Old Testament and God's Nature

In five pages God's nature is examined in Exodus 34, verses six and seven. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

The Hereditary Nature of Alcoholism

Supportive Evidence For decades, researchers have investigated the causes of alcoholism; they have looked at learned behavior, yo...

Nature as Poetically Envisioned by Gerard Manley Hopkins

clear the writers intent: to demonstrate the manner by which poetry and ones life experiences are infinitely intertwined. Nature ...

Human Nature and Ethics

In ten pages ethical development is considered within the context of human nature with an application of a contemporary situation ...

Candide by Voltaire and the Travelers in Nature

In five pages this paper assesses the relationship between the travelers and nature in the satirical Candide by Voltaire in an ana...

Environmental Attitudes' Evolution, Laws of Nature, and Government

In three pages the effects of the laws of nature and the government on how environmental attitudes have evolved are discussed. Tw...

Transcendent Function and Nature in Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth

In five pages this paper analyzes Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth in a consideration of the t...

Medieval Art, Ancient Art, and Divine Nature

In five pages the depiction of divine nature in the Greek marble Girl with Doves and the German stained glass Six Scenes from a Tr...

Idea of Nature by R.G. Collingwood

ontological status of nature and humanitys ability to gain knowledge about nature. Basis for Collingwoods Thoughts and Premises ...

Odilon Redon, Berthe Morisot, Girls, Gardens, and Nature

In five pages Redon's 'Two Young Girls Among Flowers' and Morisot's 'Young Girls in a Garden. Basket Chair' are compared in a dis...

Emily Dickinson's Poetry and Themes of Nature and Death

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the poet's views of nature and death are represented in such poems as 'Twas jus...

Some Kind of Paradise by Mark Derr, Ethics and Nature

Derr reveals how human settlement from prehistoric times to the eras of European colonization have used and abused the land to ach...

Adam Smith and Karl Marx on Human Nature

living, they may be making a lot of money, but they are also spending a lot. Upon retirement, they can sell a home in the Northeas...

Human Nature According to Saint Augustine and Plato

the individual and a definition of justice. There are three classes for the state to function properly: artisans, who are skilled ...

'Nature' by Ralph Waldo Emerson

my eyes,) which nature cannot repair" (Emerson). In this he clearly envisions nature as an entity that can fix all mans problems,...

Nurture or Nature in the Intelligence Debate

generalist view intelligence as some sort of innate capability, a capability which is determined by some particular factor which i...

Justice and Its Dual Nature

of the state. With Aristotle, Western concepts of justice began to diverge from this conception of justice, as Aristotle divided j...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Crimes Against Nature

chapter he begins with the "Mess in Texas" which is the home state of Bush. He states, "According to the Texas Commission on Envir...

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper and Nature

introspection, but rather a view that seems to only see the nature around him as something of a frightening hindrance to his missi...

Three Short Stories and the Nature of Love

this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...

First Four Chapters of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the Nature versus Nurture Debate

child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by Heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in the...

Reviewing Feminism's Evolutionary Nature

until the womens liberation movement of the 1960s. As women focused on greater political, social, and economic equality, however,...

Explaining the Difference in Human Nature Theories of Saint Augustine and Plato

important characteristics of Platos concept revolve around freedom of will and ones existence. People have the power to control t...

Man's Struggles in the Domination of Nature in 'To Build a Fire' by Jack London

that might have gone differently is early in the story, and actually deals with the mans character. The man is "without imaginati...

Western History and the Divine Nature of God

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

Nature as Used in Dante's 'The Purgatorio' and 'The Inferno'

II). Through this imagery, Dante suggests that the human soul is naturally inclined to journey towards the light and to wish to as...

Nature and Poetic Views Contrasted

his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...